Always tells me that the MP wasn't found for my selected area.
Ah, you must be a Clacton resident then
Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
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Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.
There's an excellent (volunteer-run) [website]( https://www.partijgedrag.nl/index.php ) about Dutch politics that will ask your opinion on a bunch of historic chamber proposals (for/against/skip) and use that to show your alignment to different parties by comparing your answers with actual party votes. It has definitely swayed my vote a few times. I suppose such a tool might not work in a first-past-the-post voting s…
There's Wahl-o-Mat in Germany, that does the same thing. There's one for each major election, from regional votes to EU representative votes.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Firstly, I don't think they actually introduced one of those, did they? The fact they didn't introduce it doesn't change the fact that adding 50,000 nurses required an increase in immigration. I went back and re-read the article, they also promised more childcare places. Guess what? That also requires more immigration. In fact, I just read the manifesto itself and they also added a "fast-track NHS visa," so we have…
I think we're talking at cross-purposes here - I'm not really taking a position one way or another on whether the Tories would/could have reduced immigration, and they certainly didn't deliver on that. I was just pretty flabbergasted at the time by the blanket misunderstandings of the system that was being talked about, seemingly from all sides. I didn't vote for them either way :shrug:
I think it's important to understand the context, which is where my initial reply was aimed at:
> Wtf are you talking about? The Conservatives promised to reduce immigration in 2019.
Taken with that context, it's important to understand the manifesto to realise they didn't really "promise" to reduce immigration.
> I was just pretty flabbergasted at the time by the blanket misunderstandings of the system
A lot of blame belongs with our media. Frankly, it's piss-poor, barely goes beyond surface level reading of things and attempts to get soundbites out of politicians. I get more out of random YouTubers and podcasters, which has its own problems because how do you know which ones know what they're talking about?
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#204As someone who was involved in the original guerilla digital activism that spawned the third-person URL format for independent UK government-watching websites (ie "Write to Them", "They Work for You"), I applaud your on-topic brand extension, Tim :)
Thanks Danny - it was indeed following 'They Work For You' - I'm a big fan of that site.
I'm proud to say that the "They Work For You" was actually one of mine (or my recollection is both vain, and broke) :)
Let's not forget that Matthew Somerville did (and still does!) most of the actual work tho.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that's expensive as hell and I didn't know if anyone would visit the site..
Ideally you would save them as they were generated, and deliver the saved version the second time?
Yup, that's what happens.
If you request a postcode that leads to an MP that's not been seen before, it starts generating that MP and saves the ongoing promise, and gives that promise to everyone else to asks for that MP.
Had to make sure to implement this so that I didn't end up generating duplicates.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#206When I tried it with the Walthamstow constituency the ID used a , as a date separator instead of a . Seems odd, but probably wouldn't be noticed by an automated validator anyway.
They're definitely not perfect. I wouldn't want them to be perfect, then they might be used for something nefarious. The mock IDs use fake details and fake faces, and don't even attempt to get the watermarks and machine readable parts right.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t know about this law specifically, but every other law attacking the internet or encryption has attempted to exempt people in government. That defeats the point of the legislation since it creates a gaping wide backdoor to exploit official people, who are now the most valuable targets because of that exemption. Never mind the matter of providing a rule for the people and making the people who made the rule imm…
Have they researched how many of these "age check" companies are actually run by Russian intelligence services?
Even having a single employee linked to the Russian intelligence services would be sufficient.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.
There's an excellent (volunteer-run) [website]( https://www.partijgedrag.nl/index.php ) about Dutch politics that will ask your opinion on a bunch of historic chamber proposals (for/against/skip) and use that to show your alignment to different parties by comparing your answers with actual party votes. It has definitely swayed my vote a few times. I suppose such a tool might not work in a first-past-the-post voting s…
Well aware of these tools. I've always said this but party politics is the stupidest idea ever. We should be voting on policies not people and parties. There isn't a single party which is ideologically aligned with me on enough of the significant issues. That leads to be having to pick the least bad one, and that's still bad.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#209As someone who was involved in the original guerilla digital activism that spawned the third-person URL format for independent UK government-watching websites (ie "Write to Them", "They Work for You"), I applaud your on-topic brand extension, Tim :)
Thanks for your activism Danny - by coincidence I'm wearing an ancient NTK tshirt today, from a simpler era of the internet.
Alas the ntkmart domain is being squatted by someone and I presume the shop was inactive long before that. I loved the Elite-style shirt but mine left this mortal plane long ago.
Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.
Clamping down on freedoms is not conservative policy. Crap like Communications Act 2003 and Ofcom has been Labour policy for decades.
> Clamping down on freedoms is not conservative policy.
Perhaps you can explain why the conservative party keep writing bills that clamp down on freedoms, introducing them, whipping their party to vote for them and signing them into law?